bill? better than the last two years with all the spending and so forth. so i think it s progress. just joe biden really can t get more progressive, at least on the spending side. there is a check there. i think that s an achievement but, of course, not the same as actually putting good policies in. we re blocking bad policies but we don t yet have enough people to force good policies. bill: dana and i are big fans of your editorial page because you seem to go after issues that sort of intersect with our jobs and lives here. we log on the night before to read what s coming up. last night there were so many editorials going after donald trump. now here is one from your newspaper. trump is the republican party s biggest loser. he is now flopped in 2018, 20,
21 and 22. a paragraph, now mr. trump botched the 2022 elections that could hand democrats the senate for two more years. policy successes as president including tax cuts and deregulation but led republicans into one political fiasco after another. where do you think this is going knowing that next tuesday at least on the calendar there is an expected announcement? well, i think that the mid-terms changed all the calculations about 2024. i think that president trump s attacks on ron desantis, calling him ron desanctimony yeas right before he got a huge win in florida, i think that was badly timed. i think it is badly received by many people who supported donald trump and voted for him both
searched. in december of 2017 he has past due invoices. he is getting behind, and we ll show you a section from the court filing where he makes a very personal appeal. he talks to eric donald trump and donald trump junior. he says after that point they started to get back on track. that continued through when his home and office were serged and into june 2018. then he says i m going to cooperate. i think i m not going to i may not fight this, i want to perhaps engage with the special counc council s office, and as you said before the payments stop to his various legal
putin s actions and how allies may not be prepared to deal with the impact. angela joins me now, thank you for writing this book and thank you for joining us. angela, to the extent that things are happening today that vladimir putin could not have dreamed of, of donald trump going around the world critical of allies and nato, driving wedges between merkel and the united kingdom. how much of this is coincidence and how much is a dream plan. i think he definitely had a plan which was to restore russia as a great power and get the united states to treat russia as an equal. he has not gotten all of that, but in the election of donald trump, he has a man who would like to deal with russia who i think would be prepared to say ukraine is part of russia, to recognize russia as a great